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as in flexible
able to bend easily without breaking
stretching exercises designed to make the athlete's limbs more lithesome
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as in graceful
moving easily
the lithesome panther moved effortlessly and noiselessly through the rain forest
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Recent Examples of lithesome
Upon seeing its lithesome shape for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show, Enzo Ferrari famously declared the Jaguar E-type to be the most beautiful car in the world.
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Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2021
Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2021
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International organizations can also get around Trump by becoming more bureaucratically flexible.Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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However, women’s sports, while growing exponentially, face ownership structures that are often more restrictive and less flexible.Jenn Nelson, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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Christmas Carol™ Camellia is a hybrid with a graceful semi-weeping habit and a longer bloom season, with gorgeous soft red blooms edged in white covering plants autumn through Christmas.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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Barbaro’s Joan Baez, on the other hand, is understated and graceful.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
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And an image of a woman named Linda Jackson washing her hair in a plastic bin on the Navajo Nation, the striking mountains of Monument Valley piercing the background, was how Elliot Ross shed light on what life is like in America’s water inequality capital.TIME Photo Department, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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Models that were manufactured before October 25, 2023, will have a plastic cover, and unaffected models made after that date will have a fabric cover.DeVonne Goode, Parents, 20 Dec. 2024
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Kidman, who’s nearly six feet tall, impossibly willowy, and the precise shade of a scoop of vanilla ice cream, has never been an Everywoman.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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But in this room, influencers clamor for a picture with the willowy redhead.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Japanese conductor amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
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All of them are lithe, with a classic shark profile, and hunt small fish like mullet.Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 2024
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By aligning with these groups, Iran could build a network of loyalist forces and proxies to sustain its influence in Syria even in the absence of a pliant ruling regime.Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
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Starchy potato and lots of powdered sugar come together to form a pliant dough that's rolled up with sugary peanut butter.Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2024
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Two ultra-limber actors — Hassiem Muhammad and Ryan Sellers — in garish body makeup (and dance shoes) merge limbs and psyches for an electric demonstration of poetry in motion.Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
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For thousands of years, people have turned to yoga to feel more limber, release stress and rejuvenate their overall physical and mental health.Forrest Brown, CNN, 21 June 2022
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The romaine lettuce had to be left whole, except the floppy ends, which would need to be chopped off.Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Nowhere was this more apparent than in London’s hip Chelsea neighborhood, where everyone from The Beatles to The Rolling Stones to Jean Shrimpton wore them with mod skinny pants and floppy hair.Christina Pérez, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Lithesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lithesome. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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